The patronal icon occupies its permanent place in the Local tier of the iconostasis probably since the XVIth century. The museum collection includes several icon with images of the saint patrons of Moscow Tsars. They were painted on narrow plates in commemoration of coronation ceremonies and placed in iconostasis of the home cathedral. After death of an owner they were transferred to the Archangel’s Cathedral, a burial place of Moscow Princes and Tsars. As Saint-Petersburg became the capital of Russia in early XVIIIth century, the icon "Apostle Peter, John the Precursor and Alexis, Man of God" (patrons of Peter I and his brother Ivan V as well as their father Alexey Mikhailovich) was unclaimed, because the first Russian Emperor Peter I was buried in the Peter and Paul Cathedral of Saint-Petersburg.
